1. world globes (small collection, because I'm trying to limit myself to one per decade for space purposes)
2. t-shirts from foreign countries, but only if I go to the country
3. refrigerator magnets from any place I travel
I'm starting a fledgling pen collection, too, but only have a few. Pens are cool. I keep threatening to start a salt and pepper shaker collection because they're cheap and there are a lot of fun and creative ones out there, but my wife is wary that they'll take up too much room. [Reply]
Golf clubs unfortunately. Luckily I spent a good chunk of change on golf clubs with really good shafts instead of the normal stock shaft offerings that come the set of irons. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Easy 6:
Been on a vinyl kick lately, already had a fairly extensive album collection collecting dust... everything from Jerry Lee Lewis to KISS to Tony Bennett’s iconic I Left My Heart in San Francisco album
Then the kids got me a turntable and speakers for Christmas, since then the fever has caught... added almost pristine original pressings of Physical Graffiti from Zep, Aerosmith’s Get Your Wings, plus the Stones Green Grass and High Tides and Hot Rocks in the last month
Heart of Stone on that original vinyl is just incredible... low fi but deep and warm as could be, it sounds like a dream
I go to Barnes & Nobles and see records for $30 and $40 dollars that I threw away. I had 4,000 albums from collecting from '66 to about 1995, then I retired and moved to Florida in 2011 and got rid all of them. I cherry picked them and sold the very best to record stores for hardly nothing and many I just tossed out. I moved those records so many times and now with youtube, all I want to do is watch concert videos on my big screen TV and listen to the surround sound. I sometimes regret getting rid of them, heck I still have about 500 CD's and 300 concert DVD's I collected before I discovered youtube. To me it's so much greater to be able to see the artist perform. I just a put a dozen or so videos of tribute bands on 'bands you regret seeing' thread over in media.
If you really take the vinyl serious, here's is the ultimate turntable, the platter floats, only $1400.
Originally Posted by flinchfree:
61' out of a private home in Virginia, never commercial, got to see it broken down for first time and all timbers/rails/slate had never been apart.
I had new black diamond rubber (original rubber was still on her) and fresh cloth laid. Doesn't play quite as quick as I'd like but still quality.
Absolutely beautiful group of cues you've collected, I love the Meucci's.
I actually use a snooker cue I grew up with on Australian full size snooker tables, have never been able to make the change to these massive tipped american style pool cues....but do have a super nice old McDermott D-11 I'm going to get tapered down one day so I can give it a whirl.
I no longer know anything about pool tables. However, back in 1980 when I built a house in Pensacola I bought a Gandy 8' slate top pool table, the top was 3 pieces each weighed 250 pounds. I paid $1200 delivered and setup and leveled, with cue sticks, wall rack and balls. The seller said about every 3 months he drove to Atlanta and picked up about 20 tables in the box and loaded them on a trailer and brought them back to his home in Pensacola. He had an ad in the classified and he had a couple set up in his home. He told me it was about a $2,000 table at the time, and I had my choice of color, I took a lighter birch wood with a brown felt. I let it go with the house when I sold it two years later. It was nice table, I was always wondering if it was a decent table, it played nice. Here's the only photo I have, this is from 1980.
Only things I've ever collected are concert ticket stubs, festival wrist bands, and VIP/backstage passes from concerts I've attended. Got to be pushing close to 1000 by now.
I have a crate of comics. Nothing really valuable. Just stuff I like from when I was a kid. Mostly Batman. I have probably 15-20 of the recent Batman The Animated Series figures that they've been producing. I have several Victorinox Swiss Army knives and other various knives. I have a few handguns and rifles. And I have 899 Funko Pops according to the website I use to keep track of them. But I don't really collect those anymore. Most of those are from 2013-2017. I used to have over 200 NES and SNES games but I sold them. The price was right. [Reply]
Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks:
Only things I've ever collected are concert ticket stubs, festival wrist bands, and VIP/backstage passes from concerts I've attended. Got to be pushing close to 1000 by now.
cool!
I'd make a coffee table with matching end tables out of those. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lzen:
Ok but seriously, guitars. This is only a portion of my collection. I'm sure there are other guys on here that have way more, though.
this isn't all of them, every free corner has a guitar(and a bike), 1 in the kitchen, 2 in the dining room, 2 in the front room, and 5 in my bedroom. I have G.A.S. :-)
